Kusion is an open-source, application-centric tool that makes app delivery easier. Developers define intentions in a user-friendly configuration file, while Kusion takes care of shipping your application anywhere via seamless and efficient deployments.
Really excited to see another powerful tool in the application delivery space! As a developer who's dealt with deployment complexities, Kusion's approach of using simple configuration files to handle deployment intentions is refreshing. The open-source nature is a huge plus - it means we can contribute and customize it to our needs.
Curious about how it compares to existing tools like ArgoCD or Flux in terms of GitOps workflows. Would love to see some real-world examples of complex deployments and how Kusion simplifies them. The "application-centric" approach sounds promising for teams struggling with infrastructure management.
Looking forward to trying this out in our CI/CD pipeline! 🚀
@xi_z Thanks for the support!
Use cases - Kusion is incubated from Ant Group's massive scale of operations, supporting the largest fintech & payment platform (AliPay) in China. We actually recently wrote about how we do configuration management at scale if you are interested: https://medium.com/@kusionstack/...
Comparison to ArgoCD or Flux - Great question. Argo and Flux are both GitOps tools geared toward the Kubernetes ecosystem and as far as I know they don't really operate without a Kubernetes cluster. IMO Kusion solves problem from a different angle. Kubernetes is one of the infrastructures that makes up applications today. Kusion proposes is a generic and consistent workflow that should be able to work with ANY infrastructures. So IMO Kusion proposes an application delivery paradigm and a framework where the way to define configurations and the specific kind of infrastructure technologies are abstracted away into modular components. In this sense, it is closer to Terraform on the spectrum of configuration management solutions, on the basis that they both define a core workflow and frameworks to implement custom logic that can make up this workflow. The reason being we think each software engineering org will have different integration points and needs to tailor their application deliveries.
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